Terrorismo pode evoluir para revindicação política de Cabo Delgado. O baralho está nas mãos do Governo...
Terrorism could evolve into political revindication of Cabo Delgado - warns political leader
Politically correct discourses have already tried, via the press, to convey the image that terrorism in Cabo Delgado was a fire of straw, and that at the slightest wind, instead of spreading, it would be dissipated.
Likewise, there are reports from organizations corroborating, supposedly by verification, the return of displaced people and the re-stabilization of lives in the affected regions.
However, in recent weeks the news coming out of that province has illustrated the resistance of non-governmental armed group(s), extorting and killing the population.
Taking root in the region since 2017, and although leaders of the groups have already been slaughtered, a more alarming warning is emerging about the possible intentions of the terrorists or what path the spread of the conflict could take.
The President of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), Lutero Simango, warns that if the situation of insecurity in Cabo Delgado continues - at the same time as structural projects remain suspended - extremist groups could move towards a political reclaiming of the regions where they perpetrate attacks. This would mean losing land and restructuring the map of the country.
In this sense, for the MDM leader, the responsibility for avoiding this hypothetical situation lies with Daniel Chapo's government. The initial solution, according to Simango, is to talk to the terrorists.
"My great fear is that if this conflict lasts any longer, three, four or five years, the movement will become a political claim. We have to prevent it from reaching that stage where it becomes a political demand. That's why I think we need to find a window for dialogue. " he said, quoted by STV.
Simango noted that armed movements are more resilient when they have the support of the local population and that the best strategy to prevent this "sympathy" is for the government to provide, at the very least, basic conditions for the population in Cabo Delgado.
"Any guerrilla movement survives when it has the support of the local population. And in order to prevent this support, we need to create the right conditions for this population to survive and have the minimum conditions," he said.
On the other hand, he believes that the country's secret services need to prove themselves useful and efficient, seeking to know "the motivation of these individuals, who is financing them and ensuring their safe back-up. Then we can have that window of dialog".
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